Posted on October 12, 2009 by gdahlby
I had a great time at the Teacherscape.com Leadership Institute. One of the quick think abouts that was shared was in hiring new teachers. The speaker reminded us that few if any new teachers are really great teachers their first year or two. There is too much to learn that even the best of intern experiences would be challenged to provide. His thought for hiring was to make sure you are hiring learners as well as the learned. You want teachers who are demonstrably good learners and will take advantage of all of the professional learning opportunities you as a principal, school and district provide. I liked this idea. 10/05/09- Charleston, SC
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Posted on July 16, 2009 by gdahlby
TED2009, Oxford, will explore and make visible the Substance of Things Not Seen …
These are some of the questions that they plan to tackle as they delve into the world of the unseen:
- What is an accomplished life?
- Which universe do we live in?
- Is life a mathematical equation?
- Where does motivation come from?
- Who’s defining the new geopolitical map?
- How can we observe what we can’t see?
- Can we design the air we breathe?
- What’s the economic impact of terrorism?
- Should we fear faith?
- What makes big cities function?
- What do top-secret places look like?
- What’s the true nature of modern crime?
- Can a solar-powered plane fly?
- What’s the power of music?
- Can we put biodiversity in a bank?
- How does the brain create the mind?
Wondering what would be the questions for my ED-TEDtalks proposal?
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Posted on July 6, 2009 by gdahlby
Working on book/article themes and continuing conversations from NECC2009 conference. & thinking on COSN 2010 and ISTE 2010 submissions
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Posted on May 8, 2009 by gdahlby
Key principles (resources)
NSCD: http://www.nsdc.org/standards
Reviewing the Evidence On How Teacher Professional Development Affects Student Achievement http://ies.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=REL2007033
Goals 2000: www.ed.gov/G2K/bridge.html
Summary points:
- High-quality professional development leads teachers to gain and refine knowledge of both content and pedagogy.
- High-quality professional development reflects best practices in teaching and learning, helping adults with varied interests, learning profiles, and readiness learn to work together and feel part of a community of learners.
- High-quality professional development has a positive impact on the classroom in terms of both teacher effectiveness and student learning.
Strikland, 2009. Professional Development for Differentiating Instruction. ASCD, Alexandria, VA. p.4
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Posted on February 25, 2009 by gdahlby
Watching the news cover the SC girl’s return to her school and point out less than desireable conditions makes me think he should champion a day where business and legislators visit every school building in they gather workers from or that they represent. Wonder if that would begin a revolution against 19th and early 20th century school buildings that kids and teachers have to attend? Would it move them to action?
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Posted on January 24, 2009 by gdahlby
January 24th and I was not able to swing a f2f trip to Educon. I am pretty bummed out, so I will catch what I can via the streams and posts. It appears to be a small cozy conference. I think Chris thought about 4-500 for their facility, the Science Leadership Academy (SLA).
This gets me thinking of what we might be able to afford to do in central Iowa. We have A. Maiers here in DM, Greg Davis (DMPS), several ISU C&I profs such as Dr’s D. Schmidt, A. Thompson, N. Davis, D. Niederhauser, C. Hargrave, and also S. McLeod in ELPS/Admin and the engineering folk. We have L. Zeitz in UNI, T. Buenz in Jefferson, S. Linduska, D. Krefting, T. Waterman, W. Anderson in Johnston, A. Wiley in JCSD and other ADE’s, and D. Johnson in southern Minn. B. Moore in KC. People from West HS and Omaha. V. Jaras at DE. We have IMSA just outside Chicago. Maybe we have a core and I’m sure I’ve left off others. An, of course, we have all our friends to add virtually. Maybe…just maybe we could pull this off.
Worth more thinking needed…another cup of coffee.
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Posted on December 14, 2008 by gdahlby
From the Oregon Computing Teacher, to The Computing Teacher, to International Society for Technology in Education, ISTE, Dr. David Morsund has been not only a contributer and collaborator, he has also been a founding father. His writings can give later generations to educational technology an ability to look through the rabbit hole of the past. http://i-a-e.org/downloads/cat_view/49-moursunds-iste-editorials.html
Dr. Morsund is compiling his scrapbook at information Age Education (IAE).
Information Age Education (IAE) is a non-profit organization and project with a goal of helping to improve the education of people of all ages throughout the world. IAE assumes that every person is both a lifelong learner and a lifelong teacher.
David has also written and continues to write on a variety of ICT, science and mathematics topics. A legend in his own time.
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Posted on September 7, 2008 by gdahlby
http://www.thejournal.com/articles/23180
I had written to listservs just last month wondering if anyone had an open-source solution to breaking the tie of auto response systems way from the hardware and software. In this article, while not open-source, it is software/web solution that allows any web enabled device to participate in these instant response type of instructional activity. Might be a great programming project for computer science students to dream up a open-source version instead of a fee based system Turning Point’s Responseware Web.
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Posted on September 7, 2008 by gdahlby
Wondering outloud how easy it is to get distracted as a technology director (CIO/CTO/whatever). Distracted from the educational mission of the district which it the pillar or roots of any technology plan. I’ve seen over the last 20 months important and sad events which cause leaders to veer to react or act. Sarbanes-Oxley, so loosely defined and rabid with rumors generated by vendors. Similarly for the Virginia Tech tragedy and vendors working the game to distract districts into spending time and effort to have notification systems which rarely reach the pentetration of a message directly to a human in real time that they say they can do except in the most affluent of metropolitan regions.
Were these in the mission and vision of the technology plan? What do you do to get back on track?
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Posted on September 6, 2008 by gdahlby
I’ve accepted an invitiation to the School of the Future World Summit in December. At the registration one is asked about what one expects to get from the summit or what ideas one has for consideration. On the spot, I reflected two ideas. 1.a borderless education system for the U.S. where certifications for educators are universal, transferable and equally valued. 2.) that perhaps a new export for countries around the world in various forms can be education. Some thoguths I need to develop further.
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